Disklavier

The upgrade to a SSD is a great upgrade. Silent, much faster and tons of space. But terrible what happened with your backup. 

For what it's worth, an older backup/restore version might get it all back... the MIDI files of your live performances. As long as that HD hasn't been overwritten. 

You learned through a tough experience that the most reliable backup is a bit-by-bit mirror image, easily done with hardware and even software if you know your way around Linux (or someone who does). 

The first thing to do, for anyone planning this sort of upgrade, is to have a fallback in case it goes wrong. Step 1 is to image the original HD. 

.....HK


On 2013-07-02, at 4:50 PM, carwizard <carwizard@...> wrote:

> This is now true. The latest update has broken the backup AND restore routine. I know this, because I just finished repairing an intermittent Disklavier Pro, which I have owned for 6 years.
> 
> I had two problems at the same time. They were a failing hard drive, and failing power supply. 
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> Two days before the hard drive was replaced, I backed up my piano. No problem. I then updated the piano to the latest operating system. Shortly after that, I replaced the hard drive. To my HORROR, I could not restore my music. For testing purposes, I tried to do a new backup with the new hard drive and experienced the "file handle process is running" error. I called tech support looking for what I was doing wrong, only to find out that it was not me, but rather the piano. Tech support was not aware of this problem, and are now working on a fix. This is not the first time an update has broken the backup routine. 
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> So I spent 3 days putting all my music back in and have permanently lost all "recorded live" music.
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> To have a back up, I have decided to cloan the hard drive. I purchased a hard drive cloaner and spare hard drive, and in 30 minutes, I have an exact backup.
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> The good news is that since I know own a "cloaner", I decided to put in a 256gig SSD drive in. I cloaned the original drive (after restoring music) to the SSD drive and then used "Parted Magic" to expand the cloaned copy to the new larger 256 size. 
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> It work great! Quieter, faster and larger. I then cloaned the final larger drive for backup purposes to another drive. So in summary, my DS4 M PRO now has a 256 SSD drive in it, and I also have 2 extra hard drives. 1 original 80 gig one and 1 backup 320 gig "cloaned backup" one.
> 
> Take Care
> Neal Polan - President
> Affordable Classics, Inc
> 
> On Jul 2, 2013, at 12:41 AM, "Julien Roche" <julien.roche@...> wrote:
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>> On my disklavier, it is now impossible to backup the song data. Doing the procedure I receive the warning message : "file handle process is running" 
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>> So what I shall do to allow backup ?
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>> Thank you !
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>> Julien
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